She's Got PTSD or Whatever, Post-Traumatic Down Syndrome

About

She's Got PTSD or Whatever, Post-Traumatic Down Syndrome is a memorable quote uttered by Matthew on the TLC reality television series Unexpected. Online, it has been used in an image macro series featuring a screenshot of Matthew saying the line.

Origin

On August 11th, 2019, the episode of the TLC reality series Unexpected "Five Generations of Teen Parents" aired in the United States. In the episode, a teen boy named Matthew says of his sister Tanya, "I have a love-hate relationship with Tanya. She's crazy sometimes. Tanya barely lets us out of the house. She locks her doors all the time. Every door gets locked. I know she got kidnapped when she was young. That's part of the reason that she's the way she is. She's got PTSD or whatever, post-traumatic down syndrome. No, she ain't got down syndrome. I'm tripping."

Several months later, YouTuber Shania Faith posted a clip of the episode on YouTube. The post received more than 54,000 views in less than one year (shown below).

Spread

The day after the episode aired, Redditor ^[1] lexienotlexi posted on the /r/TLCUnexpected subreddit, "idk if anyone else noticed this, but when matthew said tanya has post traumatic down syndrome i fucking DIED.. that was easily the funniest shit i’ve ever seen on tv. bless his heart😭😭😂 10/10 quality content."

Over the next few months, the images of Matthew saying the line continued to appear on online. October 7th, Imgur ^[4] user justahumanonline posted a series of images of Matthew saying the line (shown below).

On November 25th, Redditor^[3] crappy_sandwich posted the image on the /r/TLCUnexpected subreddit. On December 2nd, Redditor^[2] RenegadeMemelord posted a photograph of the scene on the /r/BrandNewSentence subreddit. The post received more than 175 points (99% upvoted) in less than four months (shown below, left).

On March 17th, 2020, Redditor^[5] vedik14 posted an image in the /r/facepalm subreddit. The post received more than 40,000 points (shown below, center).

That day, Redditor^[6] ShyGuyMemes posted the image in the /r/dankmemes subreddit with the caption "I bought my friend 4 pregnancy tests. They all came out positive and now she crying. She gon ask me 'how tf ami going to afford to feed 4 kids.'" The post received more than 93,000 points (94% upvoted) and 195 comments in less than two days (shown below, right).

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